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The Moonshae isles from the forgotten realms universe

Hello there, The forgotten realms is a really complete universe where i spent hundreds of hours dreaming with drizzt do'urden, elminster and all those heroes. The wiki about forgotten realms is full of informations (and maps) usefull for maping that world. This time i decided to try the Moonshae Isles because the variety of terain was interessting, and because isles are a cool subject for mapping
On this one i wanted to use soft colors and fonts i found on the site da font, a good ressource for..fonts
I had to cut the map in two pieces because of its form factor, i don't understand why but the zoom is very close when viewing from a web page, is there a way to controll how much you automatically zoom on an image when clicking on it?

Nice looking map. There does seem to be something screwy going on with the zoom. Normally when you click on the thumbnail a complete larger version appears . Then when you click on that it zooms to a smaller portion which you can scroll around . The size of this depends on the size in pixels of the posted original. It doesn't seem to be working as such right now. If it doesn't clear up try posting in the bug reporting Section of the forum.

"Aye The skies be clear , the seas be calm and the winds be with us .....

Definitely. The bottom part of the image is lost. When saving the image to disc, the bottom part of the map also is missing.

I cut the map in two pieces in an attempt to avoid that "zoom too much problem" , maybe you just saved the upper part?
good idea lostatsea i'll try to post that in the bug section if my next map still have zoom issues, thanks!
And a few details about the map, realised in photoshop except the labels made with illustrator. What kind of app do you use for labelling? because PS isn't really good at it..